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Art
Till April 2 at CIMA Gallery; 2 pm - 7 pm: Tradition in Modernity featuring works of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Jyoti Bhatt, Haku Shah, Lalu Prosad Shaw and T. Vaikuntam.
Till April 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Indian Society of Oriental Art presents its annual exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures.
April 2 - 8 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Orbit presents Desire ? an exhibition of paintings by Bidyut Ghosh.
DRAMA
April 2 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bhittiprastar by Henrik Ibsen. Translated and directed by Debabrata Dasgupta. An Anya Chetana production.
April 2 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Proscenium presents Kamla (bilingual - English & Hindi), a play by Vijay Tendulkar. Direction: Sheo Kr. Jhunjhunwala.
April 2 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rangakarmee presents Kashinama. Direction: Usha Ganguli.
April 2 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Manmoyee Girls School. Direction: Pankaj Munshi.
April 2 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Swapnasandhani presents Alik Babu. Direction: Kausik Sen.
April 3 at Swabhumi; 6.30 pm: Contribution and Blue Blood, two short plays, written by black Americans and directed by Rohit Pombra, will be presented by Stagecraft.
April 3 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Spandan presents the Rangakarmee production, Sarhad Paar Manto. Direction: Usha Ganguli.
April 3 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Ganakrishti presents Sateroi July. Drama & direction: Bratya Basu.
April 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sansriti presents Winkle Twinkle. Direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay.
April 3 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rang-Roop presents Tagore?s Shesh Raksha. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay.
April 3 at Uttam Mancha; 6.30 pm: Pancham Vaidic presents Rajnaitik Hatya. Direction: Saoli Mitra.
TALK
April 2 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Sarvadevananda will speak in English on Facets of Vedanta Revealed in the life of Western Devotees.
April 2 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6.30 pm: Saikat Sen will speak on The Mother?s Conversation.
April 2 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Dr Jagat Jiban Ghosh will speak in Bengali on Samaj O Vijnan.
performing artS
April 2 at Calcutta Club; 6.30 pm: Calcutta Club hosts Basanta Utsav featuring dances accompanied by Tagore songs. Besides group dances, Enakshi Das (Odissi) and Sanjukta Banerjee (Bharata Natyam) will present solos and duets.
FOUNDATION DAY
April 3 at 93A Rashbehari Avenue; 5.30 pm: Tamil Manram celebrates its foundation day along with Tamil New Year?s Day with lectures on poets Kamban, Ellengo and others by Thiru R. Kannan, Thiru R. Asokan and Thiru Saravanan, to be followed by Tamil songs by Ludhiana Krishnamurthy from poet Kannadasan lyrics on Kamban.
EXHIBITION
Till April 2 at Hugli - the Lifestyle Store; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: An exhibition of Tableware.
Till April 5 at Caffein, Elgin Road: Aranya presents an exhibition of its hand-made paper gifts and stationery items including notebooks, calendars, photoframes, tenstands, greeting cards, albums, paper bags and writing pads.
Till April 4 at 265 Jodhpur Park, 1st floor; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of Bharati Datta?s collection of sarees.
Till April 5 at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, # 2440 8926/27/37; 10 am - 6 pm: Poila Baisakh exhibition of sarees, fabrics, dupattas, scarves, stoles, garments and men?s kurtas.
Till April 3 at Shuma?s, 359 Jodhpur Park; 10 am - 8 pm: Summer exhibition of handloom designer sarees.
Till April 2 at Cinnamon Gallery, 1 Upper Wood Street: The Cottons of India ? sarees, dupattas and yardages by the master weavers themselves. Presented by Sujata Sarawgi.
DISCUSSION
April 2 at Presidency College, Bankim Sabhagriha; 2 pm: Ahana hosts a panel discussion on Fashion Statement in College - Trends or Culture. Panelists include Amitava Chatterjee, Sujata Sen, Roopa Ganguly, Subrata Sen, Jimmy Tangre, Piu Sarkar and Subham Ganguly.
SEMINAR
April 2 at the Department of Economics, Calcutta University, 56A B.T. Road; 2.30 pm: An interactive seminar on Policy Options before the UPA Government, organised by the Alumni Association of Calcutta University Economics Department in association with the Department of Economics.
April 2 at YWCA Auditorium, 134 S.N. Banerjee Road; 4 pm: West Bengal Prohibition Committee hosts a seminar on Drug Abuse.
READING
April 2 at Crossword, 8 Elgin Road; 5 pm: Book reading of Tarun Tejpal?s The Alchemy of Desire by Rita Bhimani and Tota Roy Choudhury, to be followed by an interactive session with the author.
April 3 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya?s account of the duels on Kuruksetra, in one of which Bhisma kills Drupada?s eldest son Sveta in a bitterly fought battle, in the 272nd weekly session of his complete English transcreation of Vyasa?s Mahabharata.
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